Unbelievable? Old Testament violence: Greg Boyd & Paul Copan

2018-01-20T00:00:00

Greg Boyd’s new 2-volume book The Crucifixion Of The Warrior God is a new theological approach to understanding Old Testament violence and warfare through the cross of Christ.

Greg engages in the first of two shows with theologian Paul Copan who holds to a “synthesis” view of how to understand OT violence and disagrees with Greg’s theology.

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